Poetry Everywhere | "Slow Dance" by Matthew Dickman | PBS
Duration: 03:31
Collection: Poetry Everywhere
Matthew Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1975 and his work has been published in "Tin House," "The Boston Review," "The American Poetry Review," "The Missouri Review," and "The New Yorker." Dickman's poems capture the intense emotions of everyday life, and deal with pain, loss, love, and poverty with gentle understanding and hopefulness.
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Post Date: March 22, 2011






